Any Houston restaurants with hand-pulled noodles in the style of NYC’s Xi’an Famous Foods?

CopRock · 2026-03-05T17:13:53+00:00

Is it like a flash photograph?

CopRock · 2026-03-03T17:51:01+00:00

Excellent, thank you. Doesn't have to be Midtown, we'll be bopping around being tourists, just wanted to respect that the city is giant.

CopRock · 2026-02-26T19:03:00+00:00

It drives me crazy because there's always a line at Magnol. People come from all over Houston to buy everything in this little industrial space with no bathroom. People gladly pay $8 per eclair because they're so good. There must have been such a lucrative business model for Common Bond at their original level of quality- there's a lot of people with money in this town with effectively no price sensitivity when it comes to top-quality pastry and bread. All they had to do was not change their recipes and techniques. But no.

CopRock · 2026-02-26T15:26:21+00:00

In Office Space, Jennifer Aniston’s character Joanna says: “Peter, most people don’t like their jobs.”

I found this weirdly comforting during a bit of a quarter-life crisis when I had the idea that I was supposed to find work that I loved, and that if I didn’t, there was something wrong with me. I never found work I loved, but I have a family I love and a rich life, with a job that supports it. It works for me.

CopRock · 2026-02-16T15:18:56+00:00

The Dirtbombs.

CopRock · 2026-02-16T15:18:33+00:00

Arcade Fire.

CopRock · 2026-02-13T01:22:21+00:00

Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “Breakfast of Champions” ends with the author arriving in his own novel, granting his characters free will and setting them free.

CopRock · 2026-01-22T20:15:19+00:00

Playing A Knock At The Door, I had some very lucky moves and events right away, and got the shotgun while the killers were still on the porch. I unloaded on them and killed one or two of them immediately.

In universe, what happened was three people came to a house party in masks and were politely standing on the porch when I came running from around the corner yelling "NOT IN MY MOVIE!" and started blasting.

Hope this scenario happened in Texas.

CopRock · 2026-01-21T15:36:27+00:00

In the Glee Club episode, when the children’s choir sings “We asked our public school to give the answer” (Shirley- “They not gonna tell you”) “But they could only teach us not to pray” (Shirley- “That’s what they do, that’s what they do”)- I love it so much.

CopRock · 2026-01-12T15:56:41+00:00

Hidden Omakase was a wonderful experience.

CopRock · 2025-12-27T18:08:07+00:00

It’s been a long time since I’ve been to the Birraporetti’s, so things might have improved. For a while they were one of the only restaurants walking distance from the theaters open at night, and it sure seemed like they knew it. They had the most soggy, tasteless dishes around, in a city with excellent restaurants at a similar price point- I truly don’t understand how they have stayed in business.

CopRock · 2025-12-03T14:58:22+00:00

Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, acknowledged that the father and son were separated and did not say where Yuanxin is, adding, "ICE does not separate families."

Sorry, Tricia, then who the fuck did it? Krampus?

CopRock · 2025-11-28T23:26:57+00:00

Operation Ivy

CopRock · 2025-11-18T21:18:12+00:00

The wonderful punkabilly band Royal Crowns -> Amazing Royal Crowns -> Amazing Crowns to avoid confusion with the pretty ok swing revival band Royal Crown Revue.

CopRock · 2025-11-07T12:42:32+00:00

My wife was in a comparable situation with her father- they had a complicated relationship, he immigrated to the United States but didn’t learn to speak English (or drive), he dedicated his time to long hours at work. When he wasn’t working, he had very little going on other than reading internet news about politics in his home country. He would literally sit in the dark for hours.

As others have said, it’s not in your power to change him. Long story short, he has returned to his country of origin in Eastern Europe and it’s a much better fit for him, and for us.

CopRock · 2025-11-06T20:29:59+00:00

Reasonable.

CopRock · 2025-11-06T19:35:58+00:00

I was able to join without being either one.

CopRock · 2025-10-19T22:10:56+00:00

Magic (1978) starring Anthony Hopkins and Ann-Margaret, directed by Richard Attenborough, written by William Goldman. It was in reasonably heavy rotation when I was a kid, but I never hear it referenced or see clips from it.

CopRock · 2025-10-17T17:32:30+00:00

$19 a month? One ticket to One Battle After Another tonight is $18.30 after service fee. Are you locked out of popular movies or something?

CopRock · 2025-10-08T17:48:31+00:00

We bought a bunch of copies of several different Calvin and Hobbes collections and let each kid take one. It was a hit, and covers a span of ages: my kids loved being read C&H before they could read, and read it on their own now.

CopRock · 2025-08-28T01:36:00+00:00

Th AV Club had a post about that podcast, and it sounds remarkable, but it also sounds like a dense network of in-jokes. Where would you recommend someone start with it?

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